Jury Pool Profile
Fayette County, Illinois
Republican +65 (2024)
- Population
- 21,380
- Median household income
- $57,113
- Unemployment
- 5.0%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 19,113 89.4%
- Black or African American alone 805 3.8%
- Asian alone 32 0.1%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 108 0.5%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 42 0.2%
- Some other race alone 58 0.3%
- Two or more races 1,222 5.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 620 2.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 41.7
- Under 18 4,379 20.5%
- 18–24 1,888 8.8%
- 25–44 5,332 24.9%
- 45–64 5,672 26.5%
- 65 and over 4,109 19.2%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 5.0%
- +0.43 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $770.4M
- 0.07% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $45,171
- Establishments
- 460
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,171 23.3%
- Education & health services 1,072 21.3%
- Leisure & hospitality 636 12.6%
- Professional & business services 332 6.6%
- Manufacturing 303 6.0%
- Construction 292 5.8%
- Financial activities 285 5.7%
- Public administration 246 4.9%
- Other services 160 3.2%
- Natural resources & mining 137 2.7%
- Information 26 0.5%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 80.2%
- Median gross rent
- $740
- Owner-occupied
- 6,282
- Renter-occupied
- 1,550
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Political composition
Presidential results
2024 presidential · 9,601 votes cast
- Republican 7,847 81.7%
- Democratic 1,632 17.0%
- Other / third-party 122 1.3%
Election results 2024
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
94.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 487 2.4%
- German 462 2.3%
- Other 46 0.2%
- Other Indo-European 44 0.2%
- Slavic languages 40 0.2%
- Other Asian/Pacific 36 0.2%
- Chinese 19 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 17 0.1%
- Tagalog 9 0.0%
- Arabic 6 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 7,832
- Family households
- 5,041
- 64.4% of households
- Married w/ children
- 4,008
- Single-mother households
- 410
- Veterans
- 1,129
- 6.6% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
51.5% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 6,667 31.0%
- Catholic 3,113 14.5%
- Mainline Protestant 1,292 6.0%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2 0.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 91.0%
- With a disability
- 17.5%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 16.6%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 4th Judicial Circuit Court
- Judges
- 14 (Combined Circuit Judge + Associate Judge counts per circuit. Vintage 2024-2025; hand-sourced from per-circuit official court websites and the 2023-2024 Illinois Blue Book (ilsos.gov) judge roster, cross-referenced against the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts directory. Cook County total of ~400 reflects the Circuit Court of Cook County's combined elected Circuit Judges (~257) plus appointed Associate Judges (~145) — the largest unified trial court in the United States. Several smaller downstate circuits carry estimates (see source comments).)
- Court seats
- Carlyle, Effingham, Hillsboro, Louisville, Newton, Salem, Shelbyville, Taylorville, Vandalia
This judicial district spans multiple countys.
Traffic safety context
Illinois statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 4
- 23.53 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 4
NHTSA FARS 2023